: Generate Color Palette from Image? I want to generate a color palette from an image. It's a long, drawn out, tedious process because I have to copy each of the 16-32 colors per image and

@Cofer715

You can do it with ImageMagick (shown here under Bash):

magick goHGJ.png -depth 8 txt:- | sed -e "1d;s/.* #/#/;s/ .*//" | sort -u


This converts the image to "txt" format, then uses a "sed" script to extract the hex-values for the colors, then "sort -u" to remove duplicates. Here's the result for your test image:
#209020FF #282830FF #30C830FF
#403078FF
#505060FF
#5840A0FF
#8050D8FF
#888898FF
#A02000FF
#B090F0FF
#B8B8C8FF
#D03800FF
#E06810FF
#F0B020FF


This is about the same procedure that you hinted at, except it's all done automatically for you without the manual cut-and-paste stuff.

The final "FF" on each entry is the alpha value (fully opaque). For your purposes you can ignore it.

Note that this will give you as many entries as you have colors in your image, so if you start with a photo the list is likely to be pretty long. In such a case you could use the ImageMagick "-colors N" option to reduce the number of colors to some limit, N.

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